Within days of being sworn in the new Federal Agriculture Minister, Joel Fitzgibbon has sorted out the wrangle between Canberra and the states over emergency relief for drought affected farmers. With 40 per cent of the state drought-declared, Queensland was always going to be one of the first to ...

What do young regional Australiand think of the Agriculture?Follow their ideas on Twitter @DAFFnews, @heywire and with #AgYouthTTDAFF partners with the annual Heywire Regional Youth Summit held in Canberra...

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After a Chinese coal mine was given conditional approval, farmers on the Liverpool Plains in northern New South Wales are vowing to launch legal action and resort to civil disobedience to stop the company getting a mining licence....

The Prime Minister will release the Government's long awaited blueprint for Australia's agricultural revival this morning at a dairy farm in Warrnambool, western Victoria. Australia's farm production is worth about $50 billion a year and agriculture accounts for more than 10 per cent of ...